The reason I ask is that if you're running 2.5.1.79, then the only way adinit.dat could be in your directory is if you put it there from a different source - and the only reason you would put it there is if you've had this problem before and someone told you about it.

I hope you follow my reasoning there... :)

Ive seen the pmyou sent i cant open it either

No problem. It's a moot point if you already have it anyway. No harm, no foul. :)

Anyway, since you already have it we have to look deeper into what the problem is or how to work around it.

What version of autocad do you have? I have V11 and have few problems with DXF files from it.

Also, is there a reason you can't save your autocad file as an OBJ file?

I am trying import dwg or dxf files from autcad and no matter version i save in nothing appears when opened or imported into hexagon 2.5 ?

Hexagon only reads the very basic of information from a DXF/DWG file. Other (possible) info within those files can cause issue.

It as been quite a long time since I used autocad, so my memory is not good for that. Can you check what the scheme/profile is for the DXF/DWG export? It should be exporting lines and polygons. If the export is set to output, for example "Surfaces and curves" then hexagon will not read the file.

Looking forward to hearing from you safe and sound after the passing of Sandy:)

Hi Roy!! Well, I seem to have survived Frankenstorm!! :)

Thank you so much for your thoughts of me during this period!

Sandy tracked almost perfectly according to the major models. She accelerated prior to landfall and hit almost 4 hours ahead of predictions just before 6:00PM slightly south of Atlantic City. Coincidentally, I lost power only a few minutes after that. I thought I'd be down and out for days at that point, but bless Atlantic City Electric, they got it back on at 9:50PM.

While coastal areas up and down the eastern seaboard got HAMMERED, once she made landfall she seems to have lost a lot of power. There was no discernable "eye", and they tracked it by what they called the "center of rotation" along with barometric readings.

The data at this point seem almost obscure, but as near as I can figure this "center" passed within 5-15 miles south of my house sometime between 11:00PM and midnight - and for me, the storm was effectively over. Winds, which had for hours gusted often to roughly 50 mph or so, suddenly dropped off to little more than a stiff breeze, and this morning there's no wind at all. It's just wet and dank outside. :)

Even the rain never reached what I would call "torrential", although it was constant and heavy. I estimate 6" of rain fell at best over the 24 hr period. So for my immediate area, Sandy turned out to be more of a frankfurter - a little weenie - than a frankenstorm! :)

But lest I sound smug, I know I got lucky. Areas within a hundred mile radius of me were recording "record" wind gusts in excess of 80mph, and localized inland damage seems fairly extensive over a wide swath around me.

I'm gonna go make some breakfast now and watch TV to see how the assessment unfolds.

So glad to hear that - from what I've seen on CNN, it was really horrendous. I'm very impressed with how well your emergency services are organized. There are some real nutters out there - saw one guy scuba diving in the street outside his house on Long Island, absolutely refusing to be evacuated.!

I live on a peninsular with the relatively warm Indian Ocean on one side and the cold Atlantic on the other, so we are used to some pretty severe gale-force storms, but nothing even close to Sandy.

After watching the news for awhile, I now realize just how lucky I was.

As I mentioned in my previous note, I knew the coastal areas had been battered, but jersey's shoreline has been DEMOLISHED!

Even with news videos I'm having a hard time comprehending the devastation down there.

Jersey storms are notorious for moving sand around, but one town in north jersey is completely blanketed in 3-4 feet of sand!!! I mean - how the hell can you FIX something like that?!?!? Imagine your own house suddenly packed and surrounded by 3 ft of sand, and your entire property, and your neighbor's, and the streets, EVERYTHING as far as you can see - How do you REMOVE IT??? Where would you PUT IT???

A huge pier in Seaside Heights was washed away, leaving the wreckage of an entire roller coaster sitting in the ocean. Famous swimming beaches have been washed away, coastal homes are wrecked or gone by the thousands, the bays and canals are littered with flotsam that used to be buildings...and on and on...as governor Christie put it, the damage is "unthinkable".

I wasn't just lucky, I was DAMNED LUCKY almost beyond imagination that Sandy largely exhausted herself making landfall. As is said "There, but for the grace of god..."